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Offline Chris

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« on: April 23, 2005, 04:37:46 PM »
So a long time ago I started to build a car and it sat for a long time as I didnt have time to do it, it rotted, rusted and was eventually useless, then someone (Shane) called me up and sais he had a deal for me, a 61 shell, complete, rust free and straight. I said ok, and so started my project again.

I have recently mounted the tranny and reinstalled the spring plates and axle tubes, which were powdercoated thanks to Russ at Frances Andrew Site Furnishings, great job too! I am just waiting for some brake parts to come back from the machine shop and should have a complete rolling pan in the next ten days or so.

Anyway check out the pics here! or click the link in my signature line!  :D  
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2005, 06:09:36 PM »
wow,
looks good man

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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2005, 04:31:28 PM »
Spent the day installing the front disc brakes and drop spindles, other than a quick parts run to Airspeed it was an easy install. There are some new pics in my gallery, I am hoping to have it rolling on its own 4 wheels this week :) Just waiting for some rear drums to be machined and I have to find a drivers side back plate for the rear.

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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2005, 05:39:08 PM »
Lookin great! You'll be beating James in no time :rolleyes:  

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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2005, 07:40:24 PM »
My pedal car is good to go!

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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2005, 10:20:34 PM »
I saw your floorpan the other day James... it looks very aerodynamic. would make a good downhill run
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2005, 10:47:04 PM »
So a little update on my project, this evening I installed all the rear brake lines and cylinders, fit the line in to the front, waiting on a dual circuit master cylinder before I can fit the front brakes and the line lock. Also managed to mount the motor to finish building it, last major thing to do is fit the push rods and setup the rocker geometry. I have added some new pics. Thanks to Danny for taking care of the drums and custom machining some shock tower mounts to run the CE shocks. Looking forward to having this rolling soon. Just trying find some good pictures of an early pedal assembly, I cant quite get it to work right, I am sure that I am missing something?! Anybody have a few good close ups they can send me?

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« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2005, 09:21:07 AM »
Chris,

What's the prob. with the pedal assembly? The brake master cylinder plunger the wrong length? I have a couple at home I will snap some pics tonight if you like?

Mike

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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2005, 09:35:28 AM »
Just not sure how to put it all together, the one I previously had was hacked together and it has been apart for almost 2 years so I dont remember how it goes.

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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2005, 10:34:17 AM »
I'll snap some general pics tonight then! BTW Car looks good!

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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2005, 11:53:14 AM »
Thanks X2

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« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2005, 12:20:36 PM »
Hey Chris, I have a early pedal assembly from the Fiat. You can come by and take a look at it if ya want.

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« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2005, 12:59:18 PM »
How do you get the brake lines to fit through the rubber grommets? (There's 2, one at the front of body by pedal assembly and the rear one where it exits the car).

The rubber opening is 1/2 the size of the brake line 'bolt'.  

 

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« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2005, 01:57:51 PM »
I cut the brake line in half and then glued it back together........

 

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« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2005, 07:09:24 PM »
Here you go, hope it helps, I'm pretty sure its from an early beetle

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Mike,  good luck

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« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2005, 07:17:06 PM »
thanks, I have all that figured, its more the gas pedal thats an issue! Thanks again. :)

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« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2005, 11:39:40 PM »

 *edit*
apparently i didn't read the rest of this post before i replied to it. I'm going back to sleep now.
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2005, 08:01:50 PM »
I was able to make a mark on my calendar today as the day I rolled my rebuilt pan out the door!



Not the best picture, but there is more in my gallery

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All that is left to do on the pan is, run one more brake line to the right front wheel, install pedal assembly and replace tie rod boots and do rough alignment. It was nice to roll it out into the sun.

The week after the long weekend the motor comes out and goes to Darren Krewenchuk for rocker setup!

Thanks to all the guys at Airspeed for the help!
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« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2005, 10:54:37 AM »
Chris,

Car is coming along quickly! Looks great! What's the plan for paint? Color? Primer?

Mike

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« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2005, 09:09:02 PM »
So today marked a couple huge leaps in progress the first being getting my longblock over to Darren K to setup my rocker geometry, thats about the only I did not want to do on this engine build, and as per Darren I will have the motor back this weekend! So I am stoked!

And the second big accomplishment!



Thanks to James and Brian for coming out tonight to help me get the shell on! :)



More pictures of course available on my website 61 Street Strip Project Gallery
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« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2005, 09:10:45 PM »
And by the way Danny those shock adaptors you made fit in perfect, as soon as I get them drilled. :)

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« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2005, 10:42:15 PM »
It has been a while since I managed an update on my website or here regarding my car but here goes!

Even though I was not posting updates and was busy working with the club getting the show together I still managed to get some work done on my car, as most of you that came out to the Show n Shine would have seen.

The latest work I have been doing is the electrical, all new, everything, ignition, fuel pump, line lock, everything electrical is new. I installed a new wiring harness, using the universal harness and then modifying for my purpose, I picked up a MSD Digital 6 Plus and installed that, wiring in the line lock switch for the rev limiter, I chose to use the Bosch 009 with a Pertronix Ignitor II module, and I have not decided what coil I am going with, going to be using MSD Plug Wires. I used a Porsche 914 tach and fit it into the speedo hole in the dash, I wired in an oil idiot light behind the dash that will light up the hole dash! Try to make it annoyingly obvious if there is a problem, still trying to figure out where to mount my oil temp/pressure guage cluster.

The only thing that sucks is that I am leaving town for a month for work, stupid work that helps buy stuff for my car, so I wont be able to get much done, I figure if I was home for another week I could have my car running for Seattle, but I wont be going :(

Anyway I have some more pics on my website. PHOTO ALBUM

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« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2005, 10:55:33 PM »
right on, chris. looking good.

i know what you mean when you speak of the frustration of not being able to work on your car. mine is collecting another layer of dust as i type this. sometimes there are more important thing to take care of tho. one thing is for sure, the car will still be there when you get back.  ;)  

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« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2005, 05:18:04 PM »
So made some major progress after doing nothing for so long, I have just about completed all the modifications to accomodate the tranny raise that came with the tranny from Jim.  Check out my website for pics I had to cut the tunnel and parcel tray, weld in a midmount, raise the cooling shroud in the engine bay (just cut it for now, will finish this tomorrow) and then in goes the tranny, adjustable spring plates, and install the brakes again.

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« Reply #24 on: November 11, 2005, 07:13:59 PM »
wow looks good Chris,
i should update mine one day :D  

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« Reply #25 on: November 11, 2005, 09:48:50 PM »
Looks great Chris,

With that solid mid mount do you mount the nose cone at all?

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« Reply #26 on: November 11, 2005, 09:51:44 PM »
nope, with a standard mid mount I think you can, but this is a raised tranny so you would have to buy the raised tranny nose mount, but theres no point this should be enough to hold.

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« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2005, 10:30:23 PM »
So after almost a months wait I finally managed to get some work done on the car, picked up hte remaining components for the front suspension like ce drag shocks, and the parts to fit the ball joint shocks to my link pin front end.





Also got the 135's that James gave me mounted on my 4.5 fuchs, btw dont use crappy tire in langley for anything, they scratched my rims and told me it never happened and that I didnt know what I was talking about. And I test fit a fender, went on easy and straight, so I think I have really lucked out on the body with this one....



Next to be done is the drag bar installation, Turbo Jim @ Airspeed custom built the drag bar to accomadate the tranny raise kit that I am using, also I will have to rewire most of my electrical as I have to relocate it to fit the drag bar, just waiting on some plated hardware for the rear end to finish the tranny install.....
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« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2005, 12:22:45 AM »
Keep up the awsome work, looks killer. Taking my wheels to Canadian tire would give me night terrors..... :(    
I can't reach the bottom but I sure bang the sh*t out of the sides....

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« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2005, 06:08:07 PM »
What size engine do you have.I didn't see anything about it.Maybe I missed it!
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